One of my biggest professional hindrances is a lack of confidence. I don’t have a CS degree. In fact, I have almost zero technical academic training. (My degree is in Religious Studies). In addition, I hang out with a lot of very smart and motivated programming...

I’m not talking about build notifications from a build server. Rather, I’m talking about times when you are building locally. It’s a big project and it takes 30 seconds. So… you flip over to a web browser while you wait. Then you forget about it and waste...

One little usability bit that I picked up from many of the Web 2.0 apps (in particular 37signals apps), is displaying date and times in a “how long since” format. Take a look at the community page on Silver Arcade. I wanted to display when a user became...

I yearn to be consistent. I want my professional values to be the same as my personal ones. This is why I was quick to sign the Agile Manifesto ; it aligned with my personal values. I have been overcommitted for the last couple of months and the stress...

I recently installed a Solid State Disk, an Intel X25-M to be precise, as my operating system disk. (It was time to upgrade to Windows 7!) Despite the fact that it would not really increase compiles times , I was very excited about the other anticipated...

August 20th, Case Study: Silver Arcade Orlando .NET User Group (ONETUG) This will mostly be Rob , but I’m tagging along to offer witty banter. We’ll be discussing how we built Silver Arcade using ASP.NET MVC, Azure, NHibernate, jQuery, and more. August...

Working with people is a lot like working with code. New relationships are green fields. Over time they become brown fields and (just like code) they require maintenance. I’m sure that everyone reading this can identify some legacy relationships that...